Severed Strands - Nerub-ar Palace Raid Buff Update for Season 1 of The War Within
Last month, we discovered the Rebel Yell raid buff, which has since been renamed to Severed Strands. Serving as a soft nerf for the first raid tier in Season 1 of The War Within, this change now more closely ties Nerub-ar Palace to the evolving story within the City of Threads.
For all intents and purposes, this works the same way — players will be able to exchange Nerub-ar Finery obtained from raid bosses to stack the buff over time, currently up to 15 stacks for a whopping +45% damage and healing, which is well outside of the +20% target point suggested during the revealing interview with Associate Game Director Morgan Day. As such, it is likely we'll see further iteration as we get closer to the launch of Season 1 of The War Within.
Morgan Day
We're discussing introducing a system that has similar vibes to Reorigination Array back in Uldir, the first raid tier of BFA, except we'll be leveraging the quest system. It'll buff players over time. Right now we're looking at the buff capping out at about 20% increased player power while you're within that raid and that will also apply to your Warband! That'll be cool, that'll be something that if you come in later with your alts, you can have that extra player power across everyone on your account for that content. Depending on how that's received and how well that achieves our goals, we'll look to expand that system or try to tie it more closely with our itemization system. There's a lot of ways we could expand that itemization, but we wanted to try to do something for War Within.
The Severed Threads is the fourth major faction of The War Within, rebellious elements within the capital of the Nerubians in Azj-Kahet. This so called City of Threads bears many similarities to Suramar from Legion, a heavily caste-based society which players will assist in growing a rebellion against Queen Ansurek and Xal'atath. Although «Rebel Yell» already formed a pretty obvious connection, this name change to Severed Strands more
